CNBC Anchor Becky Quick Blasts Paul Krugman In A New Op-Ed

But more than anything, the piece is an attack on Nobel prize
winning economist Paul Krugman.

"It's bad enough that we can't have a serious conversation about
any of our nation's problems during the election season," she
writes. "Now folks like Paul Krugman are trying to ensure that we
can't have one after the election either."

Quick takes the side of deficit hawks who warn that the U.S.
government will eventually be crushed by its debt.

"The interest payments on all that debt are a potential tsunami
of their own," she writes. "We're spending $258 billion a
year on interest payments for our massive debt."

Krugman, and many other experts, argue that when the economy is
in decline, the government needs to step up spending until
activity picks up.

Earlier this week at a talk sponsored by the
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Krugman and Nobel
laureate Joseph Stiglitz argued that spending is
particularly crucial for economies coming out of a crisis,
because if government's do cut, they risk sending their countries
into depression.

Quick's anger and frustration hits a crescendo when she says:
"The only problem with Krugman's critique? It is hard to find
anyone who actually agrees with him."